How To Use Clerk In A Sentence

This facility is intended to help a few hundred families living in public housing by training them to be grocery store clerks.
“Come, come, clerk,” continued he, “catechise him a little on this subject.” The Adventures of Roderick Random
Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
The reception clerk consulted a colleague.
The lawyers, policemen and bailiffs grinned, along with the clerk.

She recently wrapped up a prestigious year-long stint clerking for Judge Leonie M. Brinkema at the federal court in Alexandria -- but, no, said she couldn't discuss any of the cases she worked on. Cate Edwards lands first law firm job, joins the ranks of Washington lawyers
The pet shop clerk had been helpful, showing him an assortment of mice and guinea pigs and even a pair of canaries, but in the end, Enoch had settled on the brown-and-white hamster.
Their attempt to bribe the clerk had failed.
He started as a clerk but gradually rose in the pecking order.
From almost two hundred field offices, more than two thousand special agents teletyped all new data daily to Headquarters in Washington, where an army of clerks indexed it for easy retrieval.
The mock-up design featured access by ramps to all raised spaces, including the judge's bench, witness stand, jury box, and clerk stations.
Their clerks, mostly in straw boaters, hurried along.
So an embarrassed clerk in the table office wrote to Mr Wilson, advising him of proposed amendments to his motion.
Finally, the Clerk involves voters in facilitating not only recounts and redundant checks but revotes as well.
Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati. The War of the Wenuses
He enlisted in the Army in 1980 and was first assigned as a young private as a supply clerk in Germany.
The clerk regarded him with benevolent amusement.
Surgeon's stuck in a mess of an appendectomy ," he heard the clerk say. DO NO HARM
Increased Irish emigration to Britain during the 1940s supplied navvies, nurses, clerks, policemen and munition workers.
Due to the large numbers of those indicted, the court clerks eventually tired of writing the charge in full and began to abbreviate it.
Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work. Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance
He was also set to buy a castle until a bank clerk spotted an error in a mortgage application and alerted cops. The Sun
Believing that my wallet was gone forever, I started calling my bank and credit card companies, but the front desk clerk called my room, saying, “A cabdriver is in the lobby with your wallet.” A wayward wallet returns
BANGOR, Maine - A local man with a long criminal history allegedly threatened a store clerk with a knife on Monday night after she told him he was seen on the store's video surveillance system stealing an item, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said on Tuesday. BangorDailyNews.com - News
Ill eneugh to keep the doors open as it is, let be facing Whitsunday and Martinmas — an auld leather pock there is, Maister Francie, in ane of worthy Maister Bindloose the sheriff-clerk’s pigeon-holes, in his dowcot of a closet in the burgh; and therein is baith charter and sasine, and special service to boot; and that will be chapter and verse, speer when ye list.” Saint Ronan's Well
John Hales, clerk of the hanaper, a learned and able man, and, like all who espoused this party, a zealous protestant, had written, and secretly circulated, a book in defence of the claims of the lady Catherine, and he had also procured opinions of foreign lawyers in favor of the validity of her marriage. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
POSTAL CLERK: Well, put it down. I have to weigh it first.
They are also a classic comic pair in a production that's chockablock with vivid characters: Elizabeth Reaser as Buddy's wife, Beth; Collette Wolfe as Matt's wife, Sandra; Louisa Krause as a droll motel desk clerk. Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book
He was spotted by a court clerk and security marched him to the cells. The Sun
Mr Boffin having been several times in communication with this clerkly essence, both on its own ground and at the Bower, had no difficulty in identifying it when he saw it up in its dusty eyrie. Our Mutual Friend
` ` The shirra sent for his clerk, and as the lad is rather light o the tongue, I fand it was for drawing a warrant to apprehend you --- I thought it had been on a fugie warrant for debt; for a 'body kens the laird likes naebody to pit his hand in his pouch --- But now I may haud my tongue, for I see the M ` Intyre lad and Mr. Lesley coming up, and I guess that The Antiquary
Item, he showed also that my Lord Willbewill was turned a very rebel and runagate, and that so was one Mr. Mind, his clerk; and that they two did range and revel it all the town over, and teach the wicked ones their ways. The Holy War
The men yelled at the clerks, then "hurdled" over the counter, pushing a few female employees out of the way, Eggert said. Undefined
Clerk : The elevators are over there next to the washroom.
They knew that several clerks lived in the shop and they felt that they would have to kill them in order to assure a successful robbery.
There was, reported clerk Bob Park, a family living in a caravan parked in a layby on Trinity Hall.
I suggest that we sit down for a moment on a nearby bench, which is miraculously free of dossers and bank clerks.
The bare fact is that the clerk did not look for the purse.
Paul, the parliament's clerk and chief executive, is convener of the SPBE board.
If his worship uses this form of procedure often, I advise him to get another clerk, that's all, for I shall certainly demit. '' Rob Roy
I've never seen such a polite clerk.
Responding to the comments out-going Town Clerk Ger Scully said it was the second time he was departing from a position of town clerk.
So an embarrassed clerk in the table office wrote to Mr Wilson, advising him of proposed amendments to his motion.
He's prepared to help whoever he meets, be it a trade union leader, a consultant or a junior clerk.
One of the sales clerks called security.
The confusion was caused when two numbers were accidentally transposed by a Social Security clerk.
One day she sat musing by a forest fountain, dressed in a robe of yellow silk, wantonly plucking the flowers which grew on the mossy parapet of the spring and binding them into a bouquet for the Clerk of Mezlean.
But to come back to Tacitus for a second - he shows the other side, the treasonable side of the clerks of the Roman Empire.
Mahone then forces the clerk to hand over Wyatt's cell number.
They called him'the bank clerk who went to war '. Times, Sunday Times
Massage No one is like a barber's shop clerk said to hurt to be effective?
McCluskey told his patrolman clerk where he would be if he was needed.
A clerk booked down details of every article handed in.
I am ycleped J. Keyser -- I was born at Spring, hys Garden, My father toe make me ane clerke erst did essaye, But a fico for ye offis -- I spurn ye losels offeire; For I fain would be ane butcher by'r ladykin alwaye. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
The chief clerk supervises the work of the department.
I ended up seeking the advice of assorted locals, from taxi drivers to bank clerks. Times, Sunday Times
A retraction is in order from the Plainfield City Clerk's office concerning Candidate Rucker's address. Plainfield Council candidates, 2007 primary
A postal clerk will open the envelope for inspection.
It was the druggist herself I spoke to, not a clerk.
Under his breath the man quietly cursed the interfering clerk who could bring his master's grand design to nothing.
Any party taking an appeal to the board from a decision or determination of the commissioner or of a board of assessors, hereinafter referred to as the appellee, shall file a petition with the clerk of the board of tax appeals and serve upon said appellee in the manner provided in section nine a copy thereof. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
Buttonholed while crossing the court-house lawn, and backed into a corner between the county clerk's office and the jail, Shelby had to listen with what patience he might to her denunciation of what she called his vile concord with Belial. The Henchman
They were led by their officers, town clerk Graham Gittins, borough beadle Alfie Johnson and mace bearers Tony Sansom and Derek Smithers.
She was invested as a serving sister of the Order of St John at a ceremony in the order's Grand Priory Church in Clerkenwell, London.
He had slapped a hard copy of his warrant on the clerk's desk as soon as he had entered.
He is an experienced town clerk and we would obviously listen to the advice that he gives.
In 1847, he began clerking in the law office of Boston abolitionist Ellis Gray Loring.
I attended the public schools where I was properly "hazed" and got what was "coming" to all country boys; finally I graduated under the tutelage of Dr. Joseph Finch (a patriot indeed, who made a lasting impress for earnestness on thousands of boys), and then went to business as an entry clerk with a large importing metal house, where I remained until the war broke out. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
The clerk embezzled a thousand pounds from the bank where he worked.
He found his first job - as a bank clerk - uncongenial, and the armed services always beckoned.
CLEVELAND - County supervisor Clyde Mueller will not be seeking another term in 2010 after filing his noncandidacy form with the county clerk. The Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter Latest Headlines
This has happened at other stores and usually the most sympathetic person is the sales clerk, who feels guilty that I can't try on the clothes.
The court clerk, a slight woman of about fifty, her expression emotionless and professional, rotated the box and, when it had stopped, opened the top, looked away so that the jurors could be assured this was random, and took out the first card. Just Take My Heart
On any given day, interaction with hairdressers, wait staff, bank tellers, and store clerks may be a challenging, if not frustrating experience.
God, I did like clerking which is the person who the secretaries talk down to. The Lesbian sleepover, a specialist, collecting things, and local politics
A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation.
I am also a former dist. court law clerk whose judge made a point of instructing me that other district court opinions had no precedential value. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
Thus, students, if likely to participate, prefer to participate in programs in which they receive university credit that is equivalent to pharmacy clerkships.
She said her husband, a rail clerk, went outside to confront the louts but they just taunted him and started smashing his car.
He turned and saw a certain Fred Beaucock -- once a promising lawyer's clerk and local dandy, who had been called the cleverest fellow in Sherton, without whose brains the firm of solicitors employing him would be nowhere. The Woodlanders
The courts employ 60 clerks who act as legal advisers to magistrates.
Another couple had their drive bulldozed by the clerk of the local town hall, who claimed that the land was his. Times, Sunday Times
He had come a long way down in the world, clerking in a surf shop and teaching Australian kids and Japanese tourists to surf on his lunch hour.
The court clerk will notify the witness when and where to appear.
His jobs: distributor of vending machine candy, all-night clerk in a convenience store, a third-rate newspaperman. THE SHIPPING NEWS
Other southern women worked as clerks in newly organized government departments. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
After her position was offshored, the systems analyst took on three jobs: as a cell phone customer-care rep, a department-store clerk, and a real-estate agent.
TOTENBERG: Republicans have also criticized Kagan for what they call her heroes: the two judges she clerked for after law school, federal appeals court Judge Abner Mikva and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, as well as former Israeli Chief Justice Aharon Barak. At Confirmation Hearings, GOP Eyes Kagan's Record
The retired office clerk was told it was for security reasons. The Sun
Jay: but the author of the OP clerked for Justice Souter and spent time inOLC The Volokh Conspiracy » The Solicitor General Lays an Egg
When I finally found an adult in the crowd, she directed me to Susan, the clerk of the church ‘session.’
He was a simple - looking lawyer's clerk, elevated to the extraordinary dignity of a provincial scrivener.
The clerk shuffles through a pile of documents, tells him not to worry, he does have an appointment, and to go back to where he came from.
For the salarj 'of the chief clerk in the insurance depart - chief derk. ment, two thousand dollars. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
And now the Baboo passes into the godown, and receives from a score of servile _cicars_, glibbest of clerks, their several reports of the day's business. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
She was offered a job as an accounts clerk with a travel firm.
There's also a letter from the Lemon Grove city clerk, peppered with profanity, that she never wrote.
There was no desk clerk in the notebook.
They readily agreed, and so did the harried hotel desk clerk.
A. Roy McClerken hallooed to me; he asked me if I could take a couple of passengers.
In response to your advertisement in today's "China Daily", I wish to apply for the position of filing clerk in your esteemed firm.
Stucco housing developments spill into the desert, fuelled by the influx of waitresses, shop clerks, card-dealers and construction workers.
The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read and cast accompt. The Second part of King Henry the Sixth
When the case began, the court clerk may not have gone as far as curtsying, but she still addressed her Royal highness as ‘Ma'am’.
The regular component consisted mainly of cadres of officers, warrant officers, clerks and storemen, and some coastal artillery units.
Each of these six departments had two or three clerks or junior clerks to assist them in the work.
I ended up seeking the advice of assorted locals, from taxi drivers to bank clerks. Times, Sunday Times
And we haue purposely omitted all nice or scholasticall curiosities not meete for your Maiesties contemplation in this our vulgare arte, and what we haue written of the auncient formes of Poemes, we haue taken from the best clerks writing in the same arte. The Arte of English Poesie
One man has received a particularly generous gift, courtesy of a hapless bank clerk. Times, Sunday Times
Clive conquered and organized Bengal for the East India Company He first went to Madras as a clerk in 1743 and by 1749 had won the lucrative appointment of military commissary.
There are less than three hundred people in the clerkly grades, and a few hundred lower grade admin staff.
This trend had begun earlier when department stores employed young women as sales clerks, but it expanded significantly after the turn of the century, and extended increasingly to male workers in large stores and corporate offices.
His father worked in Kumbakonam as a clerk in a cloth merchant's shop.
Kneeling to cut the cords of newspaper bundles, TickTock, clerking in his father's store, grinned up.
New Salem, Illinois, where Lincoln was "clerking," was known the neighborhood around as a "fast" town, and the average young man made no very desperate resistance when tempted to join in the drinking and gambling bouts. Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
Clerks in dusty stores moved with the majestic inertia of tall ships becalmed. Michael Winship: Washington and Change: Cash You Can Believe In
But in the Senate of the United States, both of these formalities are dispensed with; the breviate presenting but an imperfect view of the bill, and being capable of being made to present a false one; and the full statement being a useless waste of time, immediately after a full reading by the clerk; and especially as every member has a printed copy in his hand. A MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE
I have contacted the clerks of both the parish and town councils which will be affected.
Clerk: Go to the window marked " Parcel Post.
A deluge of postgraduate applicants for the posts of lower division clerks, junior assistants, sweepers, liftmen and durwans have left the Calcutta University (CU) authorities struggling to select the candidates for 200-odd vacancies. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
The last gripe is that, yet again, there appears to be a paucity of the machines available, at least in shops, with Compustore sales clerks saying they ‘can't see’ when they'll have them in.
Not long afterward, Butterfield, a clerk in the P. P. R. S. office, overheard a conversation between Elderson, the manager, and a German.
We could go to the beach today and tonight ask the hotel desk clerk to arrange a boat.
Finally the clerk of Parliament came to inform him that someone was on the way.
Do not try to erase anything as remote from basic-basic as birth unless the file clerk insists on presenting birth.
The bank clerk peered at the customer through / from behind the grille.
Based on this, and knowing that a clerkship is a limited-opportunity only the best! The Volokh Conspiracy » Judicial Clerkships From Hell:
Postal clerk 1 : Hello, may I help you?
The clerk was elevated to a managerial position.
The firm told the dock company to deal with the timber according to the instructions of a clerk of the firm.
One man has received a particularly generous gift, courtesy of a hapless bank clerk. Times, Sunday Times
He left school at the age of fourteen, and worked as a clerk at the Henley Telegraph Company and took evening lessons in draughtsmanship and drawing at the University of London.
but interestingly enough, not because he is the father of English poetry, but because he happened to be Clerk of the Works when he died in 1400.
The boss has a narrow squeak last night in his office, his spooning with a girl clerk was almost found out by his wife.
Clerk of the course Bill Farnsworth took the decision to abandon after temperatures had fallen to below freezing overnight.
Today the senior clerk's role resembles that of a chief executive of a multimillion-pound company. Times, Sunday Times
One shop kept its pirated stock in a space above the ceiling, and clerks communicated with two-way radios to have them brought out for customers.
Opposite to David's desk stood a smaller one occupied by the articled clerk.
After packing in his job at the auction house to become an insurance clerk, he had more money to spare and bought more turkeys. Times, Sunday Times
His bank has to fly the slip of paper cross-country to your bank so clerks there can look it over.
The office of the clerk of superior court can be helpful in directing this matter. Understanding Cancer
Yes," replied the townsman, "I am deputed by the people of St. Michel to tell you that they are good servants of the king, but that they do not mean to have any gabel, or marks on pewter or tobacco, or stamped papers, or _yreffe d'arbitrage_ (arbitration-clerk's fee). A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
He is also a singing teacher at Manchester Grammar School and a lay clerk at Manchester Cathedral.
He coughed and cleared his throat again and looked up at the clerk.
Today the senior clerk's role resembles that of a chief executive of a multimillion-pound company. Times, Sunday Times
Of the 163,000 civil servants, about 30,000 are general grade workers, such as clerks and typists, who fear the administration will cut their jobs to reduce expenses.
Once you've chosen a fabric you like that feels comfortable and meets your standards for appearance, get the sales clerk to show you two yards.
But the clerk was calling the snakelike police officer this very moment, probably. The Three Furies
Children unable to go on to higher education were absorbed into the government sectors as postmasters, stationmasters, clerks and other white-collar jobs.
Such an informal check on the Court could give the public some assurances that law clerks are not running an incapacitated justice's office.
And he liked the other clerks, who still played basketball together and gathered for weekly happy hours at the court's interior courtyards.
In fact, right around the time when the Supreme Court announced that it would take the California video-game regulation case, I suggested that a court clerk bring in a copy of Nier, probably the "gamiest" of this year's top games. Slate Magazine
This, of course, assumes that there are returning officers in existence to whom the Clerk can send the writ.
Few men have ever had a stronger conviction of their clerisy, of their belonging to the clerkly caste of the responsibles.
The hotel clerk ran through the usual facilities before coming to an awkward halt. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes lawyers use paralegals and law clerks to help research a case.
Clerk : What's the zip code, sir? Carlo: I'm not quite sure.
He'd been a solicitor's clerk when he decided to emigrate to America. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
The retired office clerk was told it was for security reasons. The Sun
His education would have qualified him for any course of life; and he became an octroi-clerk -- [The octroi is the tax on provisions levied at the entrance of the town] -- in one of the little toll-houses at the entrance of his native town. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The clerk rolled his eyes and looked up at the chairman of the bench. Times, Sunday Times
I knew he was the clerk from the Town Hall Annexe.
Postal clerk: Good morning, may I help you?
He was selected for the county colts and through this found a job as a clerk in Aldershot town hall. Times, Sunday Times
Born in New York in 1816 and a graduate of Princeton, Conkling had clerked briefly in New Jersey then moved to Illinois in 1838 and was admitted to the bar that October.
The clerk to the local authority was the principal legal adviser and, therefore, invariably a lawyer.
The office of Commons clerk goes back to the 14th century. Times, Sunday Times
The office clerks have been on full pay for more than three months. The Sun
The desk clerk looked up over round-lensed glasses.
For all his talk about sport car and yacht, he's just an ordinary bank - clerk.
Reid nodded before continuing his verbal assault on the clerk.
Despite a massive police inquiry and a 10,000 reward, no trace of the hospital clerk had previously been found. Times, Sunday Times
There, as the only female clerk employed, she was paid the full male rate at a time when most women received only 54 per cent of a male wage.
He is a clerk for a judge.
My guess is, that clerk didn't feel stupid about it at all, until the Times reporter started badgering him.
Students frequently have other responsibilities while on clerkships that may detract from performing patient care functions.
Then the son of his head clerk was killed in action.
Each entry then had to be keypunched by one of the clerks, who kept us on a strict schedule so she didn't get behind in her other important work.
Mr. Feldman acknowledges these differences — starting with his title drawn from a Frankfurter law clerk 's characterization of the Supreme Court as "nine scorpions in a bottle" — but tries to celebrate all four "great justices" equally, as if their negative estimations of each other were mere personal foibles. The New Dealers
At the ValuJet counter, two clerks tried to pay attention to their immediate task: putting people on other ValuJet flights.
“Drink hael, Holy Clerk of Copmanhurst!” answered the warrior, and did his host reason in a similar brimmer. Ivanhoe
Telephone reservation clerks were provided with feedback on their verbal behaviors obtained from unobtrusive monitoring of their telephone calls.
This case, which was well watched by the hospital obstetric clerk, and his consociate, Mr. Davy, was a very interesting one.
Ferguson contends that ‘preprint clerkly ideologies about the value of the ` illustrious vernaculars’ " helped to shape the development of the standardized print languages.
She tossed the desk clerk her key before leaving the hotel.
She was displaced by her junior clerk.
I know of some immortal poems that were written by a druggist's clerk, and some by a gager of liquid barrels, but none by a cable-car conductor. The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow
All were made prisoners save one, Mrs. de Mello, a handsome three-quarter caste, the youthful bride of the Collector's clerk or first assistant, who had alighted from her palkee to gather some wild flowers that grew on the road side, a short time prior to the appearance of the mutineers, and from where she stood witnessed the attack. Vellenaux A Novel
signboard," men sat and talked of their various trades, the cobbler, for instance, who is carved on the Cathedral stalls, with the clog-maker, and the wool-comber, and the carpenter, all met and gossiped of their latest piece of profitable business, while the lawyers discussed the never-ending question of the Privilège de St. Romain with some learned clerk over their "vin blanc d'Anjou. The Story of Rouen
Two more clerks came through, checking our IDs and initialing our blue application forms again.
AzTEC is the name of the camera used on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope.
The hotel clerk ran through the usual facilities before coming to an awkward halt. Times, Sunday Times
One of the supply clerks had done a last minute bit of customization to her helmet.
Their cageyness doesn't prove they're guilty of anything more than careless recordkeeping -- which is OK if you're a clerk at a retail store, but NOT if you're a professional scientist. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
The chief policeman went on talking with the Brooks Brothers clerk, seemingly unperturbed by the size and mood of the mob.
He was one of Charless clerkly colleagues in Leadenhall Street. Excerpt: The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
The answer, given loud enough for all to hear, was then noted down by the clerk.
It was standard practice for untrained clerks to advise in serious cases such as murder.
And these are not summary cases, but are conducted with all the preparation made in a chancilleria of España; and as the ministers of justice and their assistants are so many (and as there are so many alguazils, attorneys, secretaries, reporters, summoners, notaries, clerks, and servants of all these -- _Madrid MS. _), and the The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Registration clerks based in public places throughout Nunavut have been buttonholing voters for the past two months, recording their names and addresses for entry into a permanent voters' registry stored in a computer database.

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